AI: Chilling climate of fear sweeping Turkey as gov’t abuses state of emergency
"A chilling climate of fear is sweeping across Turkish society as the Turkish government continues to use the state of emergency to shrink the...
Turkey arrests jailed journalist Karayeğen’s daughter, aged 23, over “terror” charges
Zeliha Esra Karayeğen, the 23-year-old daughter of jailed journalist İbrahim Karayeğen was put in pre-trial arrest on charge of membership to a terrorist organization...
Amnesty projects names of jailed journalists on Turkish Embassy building in the Hague
Amnesty International on Tuesday night projected the names of imprisoned Turkish journalists onto the facade of the Turkish Embassy in The Hague.
The protest came...
Sweden Deeply Concerned About Rights Violations In Turkey
Swedish government on Wednesday expressed its deep concerns on backslide of human rights, rule of law and crackdown on the opposition and media in...
Main opposition CHP’s leader says they will not accept one-man rule in Turkey
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said they are not going to accept the one-man rule as a justice congress...
Police detain two journalists in eastern Turkey
Nismiye Güler and Zeynep Turgut, two reporters for the Diyarbakir-based multilingual online news portal, Gazete Sujin were detained on Thursday.
Two reporters were on way...
PEN: Never recorded so many writers in prison in one country at one time
PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, on Monday called on the Turkish government to stop abusing a state of emergency in force in...
EP’s Harms to travel to Turkey to monitor trial of Cumhuriyet journalists
Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament and co-chair of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, will be in İstanbul from July 23 to 25...
OSCE/ODIHR final report on Turkey’s referendum recommends reviewing legal framework to secure fundamental rights...
The final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on Turkey’s April 16, 2017 constitutional referendum, published on Thursday,...
RSF urges Turkey to free French journalist arrested on terrorism charge
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the Turkish government on Thursday to immediately release French freelance reporter Loup Bureau, who was jailed by a court...
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